Family memories shared about Sgt.
Thomas Nettles of Company G were recently added. Sgt. Nettles died
a Prisoner
of War at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio. I have combed the listings
of the more than two thousand Confederate soldiers buried there and updated
the records for all of those from the 36th Alabama. During this search
I also identified several soldiers that were not heretofore known as members
of the 36th Alabama.

Muster
Rolls from the 36th Regiment of Alabama Volunteers and
Dailey's
Home Guard from Monroe County, Alabama are available. All
of the Muster Rolls from the 36th Alabama are now online. Additional
names of the commanding officers, surgeons,
chaplains and other personnel along with soldiers where no company
identification was found are also listed.

I've updated these muster rolls with additional information including
details about the many soldiers that were
captured and died as Prisoners
of War at Rock Island, Illinois. Although I am working to obtain specific
confirmation, based on the Brigade's history, it is likely these soldiers
were captured at Missionary Ridge / Lookout Mountain and then taken to
Rock Island. I have included links to a detailed history of this prison.
Sadly, the tenth soldier to be buried was from the 36th Alabama Regiment
of Alabama Volunteers.

The Muster Roll from
Company E completes the transcription of the muster rolls from the 36th
Alabama Regiment of Volunteers. It must be noted that this was accomplished
on May 4th - 136 years to the day that these soldiers that survived to
the every last of the War were surrendered with General Richard Taylor,
commander of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana
at Citronelle, Mobile County, Alabama. This surrender included Holtzclaw's
36th Alabama and other troops under Taylor's command at Citronelle along
with those spread along the rail lines toward Meridian, Mississippi. This
was the last organized Confederate force to surrender east of the Mississippi
River.

From the Web wrangler: This project began
several years ago when I wrote to someone that had posted a genealogical
inquiry about another family in the Mobile Register. He was related
to the Alabama Middleton family and graciously sent me copies of information
that he had gathered over several years. Through those papers, I found
that James Middleton was in Company G of the 36th Alabama. James, his brothers,
cousins, uncles, and many other relatives were in this and other Confederate
the 36th Alabama and other units. After I first held the actual Muster
Roll with these names upon it, my interest in the Regiment grew and, like
any good reference librarian, I wanted to share my research with others.
Thus, the origins of this site. I thank all that have helped me in finding
additional notes about the soldiers of the 36th Regiment of Alabama Volunteers.

Recollections of prison life in Nashville and Washington
City by C. M. Hutton, Chaplain for the
36th Alabama. Rev. Hutton tells of spies in the Regiment, how a soldier
was accidentally shot in his leg and had to have amputated, prisoners disguised
as doctors, and how the Chaplain met Belle Boyd. Fascinating reading!

The completed transcription of the
DuBose
manuscript from the Clayton's Brigade history in the Regimental
Files of the Alabama Department of Archives and History is
available. The 36th Alabama was part of Clayton's Brigade. In the
early 1900's John Witherspoon DuBose and Joel DuBose wrote manuscripts
on many Alabama Confederate regiments. The DuBose's used the Official
Record and some first-hand accounts in its history. None of the DuBose
manuscripts have been published -- copies of the original hand-written
manuscripts are in the collection of ADAH.

Alabama
Research link page UPDATED AGAIN!If you have a favourite link
that you would like to see added, please send me an e-mail.

Alabama
Civil War Message Board - if you have not seen this yet you are
missing a wonderful site that is helping other Alabama military history
researchers.

Now known as the "OLD FEDERAL ROAD," this primary travel route was
conceived and built to connect Fort Wilkinson, near Milledgeville, Georgia,
to Fort Stoddert, an American outpost north of Mobile, Alabama. Developed
from the 1806-11 postal horse path that followed earlier Native American
paths, the Federal Road subsequently became a primary travel route for
pioneers going to the Mississippi Territory. The Federal Road functioned
as an important link between Washington, D.C., and New Orleans. Early settlers,
of the area now known as Monroe and Conecuh Counties, in Alabama included
the Middleton and many other South Carolina families.Read
an expanded history of the Old Federal Road.

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